Abstract:
This paper addresses two important issues for generating pragmatically
adequate texts: First, it investigates the ionfluence of factors from the
communicative
context on the thematic structure of texts. We claim that thematic
selection is controlled by contextual factors such as the discourse purpose
and its subject
matter. This claim is empirically validated through corpus analysis
where statistically these correlations as inter-stratal constraints in
a multistratal text
generation architecture which can recognize and sustain the complexity
of linguistic resources needed for the production of pragmatically-motivated
text.
In: Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary
Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-97), Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, February
4-6, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Ed., pp. 107-118.
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